- 1老闆、店主。台灣口語就是「老闆」；招牌或文件上較常寫「負責人」。不是房仲說的「業主」。
The proprietor of a shop, a hotel, or a small business is the owner — the person whose name sits over the door. It is more formal than boss or owner, and it has a small-business feel. You would call the woman who runs the local café the proprietor; you would not usually call the head of a huge company that. In US law, a sole proprietor is someone who owns the business alone, not as a company. Though actually, younger people often just say owner or boss. Proprietor can sound a little old, or a little proud, like a word printed on a card in the window. It is not always the same as landlord: a landlord lets you a room; a proprietor owns the trade. A pub landlord in Britain may also be the proprietor — same person, two hats.
From the word’s history
Probably from proprietary + -or.
可能是 proprietary 加 -or 變來的。
組成Probably from proprietary + -or: the person tied to what is proprietary, what is one’s own.
同家族的字
- proprietarythe likely source word; means owned as a product or right
- proprietressthe older word for a woman owner, built from this plus -ess
- proprietorialthe adjective for acting as if you own something
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
proprietornoun/pɹəˈpɹaɪətɚ/
- 1
An owner.
- Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.
- The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.
- 2
A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
- 3
One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
- 4
historyhuman-sciencessciencesOne or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
- From 10 September 1621 till 12 June 1632, Sir William Alexander, styled Earl of Stirling and Viscount of Canada, was proprietor of the Scottish colony Nova Scotia.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。